We have seen an avalanche of documents addressing human rights this year from the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, the powerful global football federation known by its acronym FIFA. That makes sense considering that FIFA chose Russia and Qatar – countries with serious human rights problems – as hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

Sunday marks the 200-day countdown to the opening of football’s World Cup in 11 cities across Russia. But with the countdown to the June 2018 tournament in Russia underway, and with serious abuses occurring, FIFA’s human rights publications are piling up, but the human rights progress is not.

With construction in Russia entering the crucial final phases, the risk is that danger to workers will escalate with companies taking hazardous shortcuts or forcing workers to work around the clock to meet the fast approaching deadline of the opening ceremony.

Fans should not have to sit in stadiums that workers were enslaved or even died to build. With the clock ticking, FIFA needs to move beyond reports, and take concrete steps to make things right.

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